Government Critics Call for Lunn's Resignation Over Nuclear Isotope Fallout
Posted on: Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 12:00 CST
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OTTAWA - Critics of the Conservative government are calling for the resignation of Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn over what they call his interference with an arm's-length nuclear regulator.
"He should be fired, very clearly," Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said Wednesday.
Lunn is locked in an unusually public and bitter battle with the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which is charged with ensuring that the country's nuclear facilities adhere to their operating licences.
Lunn is threatening to fire Linda Keen, the commission president, for her role in shutting down a 50-year-old research reactor that creates isotopes used in medical imaging.
Keen is fighting back, calling Lunn's interference ill-informed, unwarranted and precedent-setting.
The Green party agrees, and has issued a statement saying it is Lunn who must go, not the commission president.
Leader Elizabeth May says Lunn's threats against Keen "cross the line of appropriate political deference to an independent regulator" and weaken the credibility of nuclear safety in Canada.
Source: Canadian Press
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